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...girls in Shawnmoor College the most beautiful and most audacious was Myra Brooks . . . too gloriously beautiful ever to be let alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gloriously Beautiful | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

...return to Myra-Myra was certainly a knockout. "In her cheeks was the claret glow of buoyant youth. Indeed she was throbbing like a motor with the spirit of youth." Just think of it! Throbbing like a motor! What a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gloriously Beautiful | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

...course of true love was not to run smooth by any means. In the big, wicked city, Myra interviewed her father's villainous lawyer, Scott Brantly. "Can you stand a shock- or several severe ones? Your father and your aunt are at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean," he announced. "Widows and orphans are execrating your father's name all over the land- he has made them lose their all." Pretty hard to take, all that, but not a patch on what was to follow. The wicked Brantly grew amorous. "His lips . . . resembled squirming purple worms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gloriously Beautiful | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

Further chapter headings and illustration captions tell the story. Her Hero of the Train, This Young Lady Is Innocent, Was She Safe?, Floyd's Stricken Eyes Stopped Her Mad Fury, The Stockholders' Meeting, My Father's Daughter, Hurrah for Myra!, Spies, Fair Means or Foul, and then, at the last, "in that brilliantly gold, blue and white symphony of decoration which was the music room of the Hamilton home. "'Will you marry me?' asked Floyd, eagerly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gloriously Beautiful | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

...fifth concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre will be given this evening at 8 o'clock. The soloist will be Miss Myra Hess, planist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIFTH SYMPHONY CONCERT AT SANDERS THEATRE TONIGHT | 2/9/1922 | See Source »

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